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Kentmere 100

Kentmere 100

These days, I carring out mainly Black and White films instead of color positive. (Actually I felt so burdened because the price of color positive films is too much.) Usually I have used Kodak 100ft bulk B&W film for high price then from several month ago I have tried RPX100 of Rollei for somebody to say to me that quality get better before.

But You get what you pay for!!!

I think that from the first, RPX100/400 have many quality problems from production regardless of development of film. Espcially, black vertical line appeared in front of film in every 3 or 4 roll.

Some dealers told me that RPX100/400 have a lot of quallity issue and they does not import that film anymore. So now they import Kentmere series from U.K. to target middle-low price of B/W market instead of RPX series.

It looks dignified even thought it’s middle-low price, but I can’t say whether that development resut is good or not yet because almost laboratary do not have development data for Kentmere. Even though I could not develop that with accurate development data, at least it seems to have neater grain than RPX series and the emulsion do not have any problem.